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Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, the fan-favorite iteration in the long line of legendary urban planning simulations with a myriad of design options and factors to tweak and track, creating the ultimate sense of life-like complexity, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the next 72 hours! Includes the Rush Hour expansion pack.

It all started 30 years ago, in 1984. An up-and-coming brilliant game designer by the name of Will Wright created an incredibly believable virtual city that astound the gamers with its level of detail and the amount of little things that were constantly happening in it. The city, though, served only the purpose of an interesting background to an action-focused title, Raid on Bungeling Bay. It would surely feel like a waste to see such a sophisticated simulation only as a "bells-and-whistles" addition. Luckily, 5 years later, Will Wright gave the gaming world the first SimCity game. The one we offer you today, the fourth--and according to many gamers, the best--part of the series is the result of almost a quarter of century worth of a concept's evolution.

In SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition you don't just build your city, you breathe life into it. Create a megalopolis by weaving together a tapestry of cities ranging from a bedroom community to a high tech urban center or a vacation destination to a farming village. You can create a region of interconnected cities sharing and competing for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network. Use "god-like" powers to create mountain ranges, carve valleys, and lay rivers to construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. The new simulation engine offers immediate feedback so you can react to the needs of an expanding metropolis. Now individual buildings and their lots provide you with feedback. Use the My Sim features to personalize your Sim and immediately move him or her into any area and watch them experience life around town and get instant feedback on the city's progress. Each decision has a greater impact and gives you the ability to respond more effectively. The DRM-Free Deluxe Edition offered here, comes complete with the Rush Hour expansion, for an even more in-depth urban experience!

Every game in this great series offers the player hundreds of hours of fun and easily adjustable challenge to create a sense of immersion in a living, breathing metropolis. They all come with their very own special flavor, but most gamers agree that SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is the most delicious dish of them all. Grab it now, on GOG.com, for only $4.99! Remember to hurry, because the 75% release discount offer lasts for 72 hours only, that is until Sunday, June 1, at 9:59AM GMT.
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Matruchus: The point is that the license requirements don't apply to this version of the game at all since it has no online features or the need for Origin account and such. It states there in the licence that you may need Origin for some online features or for installing the game - but this game has no online features. Its just a generic EA licence. It seems they just pasted it over to gog. But the license is really silly since it applies mostly only to Origin.
I assume you're telling me this because you took my post as being serious and think that I don't know any better?

ShadowWulfe and I were kidding around relating to a review that I uploaded a pic of in post #352.
Post edited June 01, 2014 by JohnnyDollar
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tinyE: I refuse to believe that's real because someone that stupid wouldn't be capable of turning on a computer much less go online, join a site, and then post a review on it.

WAIT A MINUTE
HOLY SHIT!

Look at the bottom; someone actually found that review helpful! :O
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lugum: Did you write a review saying about that there are llama's in the game?
No but I did post a picture of one of the Llama farms in here so they do exist in the game, so long as you use light industrial. :D
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Matruchus: The point is that the license requirements don't apply to this version of the game at all since it has no online features or the need for Origin account and such. It states there in the licence that you may need Origin for some online features or for installing the game - but this game has no online features. Its just a generic EA licence. It seems they just pasted it over to gog. But the license is really silly since it applies mostly only to Origin.
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JohnnyDollar: I assume you're telling me this because you took my post as being serious and think that I don't know any better?

ShadowWulfe and I were kidding around relating to a review that I uploaded a pic of in post #352.
Yeah I know that review. It really just shows that the person who wrote that review did not read the licence through :)
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delboy2k10: Thank you GOG - I have this on disc but it was an instant buy for me

For others - a little advice

We move forward as does technology. Games that are old don't get updated, they end in there own cycle

You have choices :
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mangamuscle: I have a better idea, those with desktop computers can buy ANOTHER hard disk, make a clean windows xp install on it (unplug your main hard disk while doing so) and then press f11 or f12 or whatever option you have to choose the boot device at power up and you can install there all your good old games , no need for another pc. Those with a laptop can get an external usb drive or repartition and dual boot.

IMO another PC is not required since xp will install in modern hardware (unlike windows 98 or 2000).
I actually mentioned that through virtualisation in my main post - but yeah many ways to do this.

With Pro and ultimate editions of windows you don't need to unplug your harddrive, dual booting is as you explained and although sounding a real pain in the ar*e to do its actually very simple now

Anyway - in other words you don't have to wait for GOG to make it compatible for quite a few games here - just have ago yourself.
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JohnnyDollar: *looks at a few user reviews*

*sigh* *shakes head*
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Nirth: Haha! Origen made my morning.
mine must be defective, it never made me create an Origen account
We've got to make it to at least 20 pages worth. ;)
Kinda weird that they skipped SimCity 3000, but oh well. Maybe they will release it at a later date. They probably made more money with 4 than would be possible with 3000 anyway.
Oh no....I just missed it....damn
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EnforcerSunWoo: Kinda weird that they skipped SimCity 3000, but oh well. Maybe they will release it at a later date. They probably made more money with 4 than would be possible with 3000 anyway.
I think it's more to do with the fact that 3000 is more of a bitch to get running on modern PCs than 2000 and 4. 2000 has a DOS version that runs just fine in DOSBox (which is what GOG sells). Likewise, SC4 can be relatively easily tweaked to run on modern PCs. SC3000, on the other hand, has some pretty serious speed problems that can't easily be overcome with simple CPU killer tools.
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tinyE: Look at the bottom; someone actually found that review helpful! :O
Get ready to have your mind scanned. Now, there are two people who found it helpful.
Post edited June 01, 2014 by Grargar
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jamyskis: I think it's more to do with the fact that 3000 is more of a bitch to get running on modern PCs than 2000 and 4. 2000 has a DOS version that runs just fine in DOSBox (which is what GOG sells). Likewise, SC4 can be relatively easily tweaked to run on modern PCs. SC3000, on the other hand, has some pretty serious speed problems that can't easily be overcome with simple CPU killer tools.
It does? I've never really noticed them when running 3KU.
I can't remember the last time a game sold this fast. Maybe the STALKER games?
Wow. I just had to drop back in after getting an email notification that GOG had this gem! Words cannot describe how incredible it is to be able to get such a great game for so cheap, and DRM free. Those who are complaining I think need to realize that a game like Simcity 4 is a LIFESTYLE. Before Minecraft, before Skyrim, before the Sims, there was Simcity, just draining your free time for years, and years, and years!

Get this game, trust me!
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EnforcerSunWoo: Kinda weird that they skipped SimCity 3000, but oh well. Maybe they will release it at a later date. They probably made more money with 4 than would be possible with 3000 anyway.
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jamyskis: I think it's more to do with the fact that 3000 is more of a bitch to get running on modern PCs than 2000 and 4. 2000 has a DOS version that runs just fine in DOSBox (which is what GOG sells). Likewise, SC4 can be relatively easily tweaked to run on modern PCs. SC3000, on the other hand, has some pretty serious speed problems that can't easily be overcome with simple CPU killer tools.
Cannot say I had any speed issues; for me it is more CTD's but I think that is more a function of trying to run a virtual back-up copy on a netbook using XP32. Oh well. still would buy it even though I just got this one.

One advantage SC3K has over SC4 is that you can just jump in much more easily. Just randomize the landscape and viola (as opposed to terra-forming a region to customize it).

Otherwise everything else (the automatic roads issue not-withstanding) SC4 does in spades.